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How about a park ... a sort of natural zoo … with minimal trails for the occasional human visitor ... wit perhaps a tower or two for observation? Or …. How about just letting nature be ... in that 1,000 acres? There could be nature study areas ... wit the goal of observing specific "stuff".

Do we need more malls ... concrete, asphalt, cute facades, to offer more entertainment and plastic stuff to satisfy the increasing population of humans too easily satisfied with these disneyesk superficialities? Why not just buy everything we need from Amazon cause we gotta help JB become the richest man in history.

The quest for riches by a few, at the expense of the survival and reasonable comfort of the many, is partially the result of a culture created by a bimbo brained media. JB, allowed to run free with the new mechanism of the Internet is destroying the lives of millions, as he avoids taxes, puts millions of traditional small shops out of business, and pays poverty wages in near slavery work conditions. The dumbed down and clueless legislators, voted into office by our mentally calmed population over recent decades, are incapable of empathy toward the millions suffering as a consequence of the new god of america -- the god of riches and wealth.

The twin religions -- the worship of riches ... and the worship of gods ... both being absurd and destructive to the human condition ... apparently are destined to work together to perpetuate the suffering of not only humans, but of all the animals and the earth ... the fragile home of all.

This is going to be just like Town Center. Only two ways in or out, both already busting at the seams with traffic. Now lets just add a ton more traffic. Its going to be another mess. Kernan at JTB is already backed up half the day. Now we want to add another XX residents, retail and office workers. They really need to add more small roads in/out of developments like this.

The St. Johns River Water Management District issued permits to Sawmill Timber LLC for a stormwater management system and for mass grading of about 1,066 acres at southeast Butler Boulevard and Interstate 295 in South Jacksonville.

The St. Johns River Water Management District issued permits to Sawmill Timber LLC for a stormwater management system and for mass grading of about 1,066 acres at southeast Butler Boulevard and Interstate 295 in South Jacksonville.

From this rendering, it looks like the existing eastbound exit ramp to Kernan is still there, but a loop ramp has been added for traffic that wants to go north on Kernan. The existing ramp would then just serve traffic going into the new development. I agree, Lake, shifting the full exit to the new loop ramp would relieve some of the merge/weave between I-295 and Kernan.

From this rendering, it looks like the existing eastbound exit ramp to Kernan is still there, but a loop ramp has been added for traffic that wants to go north on Kernan. The existing ramp would then just serve traffic going into the new development. I agree, Lake, shifting the full exit to the new loop ramp would relieve some of the merge/weave between I-295 and Kernan.

Maybe. But not until a significant amount of buildout occurs with this new development. Today, ALL Kernan traffic from JTB heads north. It'll take 5-10 years before any significant amount of EB JTB traffic begins to use the lanes the weaving lanes to go south on Kernan.